Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nervous disorder in horses characterized by spasmodic movements in the hind legs that cause the feet to rise abnormally high.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A corruption of spring-halt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Far.) An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
springhalt .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Effie is spavined, Addie is knock-kneed and stringhalt, and Jessie, the only one who showed her stockings, has legs without calves, as classic in their outlines as the curves of a broom handle.
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Growing up with horses, I learned about strange diseases particular to the equine, such as sweeney (a shoulder disorder caused by nerve damage and muscle atrophy), stringhalt (a neurological condition in which the horse involuntarily lifts a hind leg), and strangles (a strep infection that causes yellow nasal discharge).
The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003
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Growing up with horses, I learned about strange diseases particular to the equine, such as sweeney (a shoulder disorder caused by nerve damage and muscle atrophy), stringhalt (a neurological condition in which the horse involuntarily lifts a hind leg), and strangles (a strep infection that causes yellow nasal discharge).
The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003
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-- Well, haven't I a splint and a corn, and ain't one of my fore fetlocks got a formoses, and my hind legs the stringhalt?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 Various
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Wore a mackinaw, was wringing wet to the skin, had one arm in a sling made of a wild grapevine, face slit up in ribbons as if he'd been fighting bears, limped as if he had stringhalt.
The Shagganappi 1913
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She had learned the symptoms of epizoötic -- whatever that was -- and poll-evil and stringhalt, and had gone from that to making a shopping tour through a Montgomery Ward catalogue.
The Quirt B. M. Bower 1905
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She had learned the symptoms of epizoötic -- whatever that was -- and poll-evil and stringhalt, and had gone from that to making a shopping tour through a Montgomery-Ward catalogue.
Sawtooth Ranch B. M. Bower 1905
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The stringhalt will gae aff when it's gaen a mile; it's a weel-ken'd ganger; they call it Souple Tam. ''
Rob Roy 1887
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Wore a mackinaw, was wringing wet to the skin, had one arm in a sling made of a wild grapevine, face slit up in ribbons as if he'd been fighting bears, limped as if he had stringhalt.
The Shagganappi E. Pauline Johnson 1887
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Foot-ball produces what may be called the endogenous or ingrowing toenail, stringhalt and mania.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887
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